Software Engineer, Stripe
Observability
$172.8-233.8k
A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
Job no longer available
A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$172.8-233.8k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To increase the GDP of the internet
Role
Who you are
- 6+ years of professional hands-on software development experience
- Experience developing, maintaining and debugging distributed systems built with open source tools
- Experience building infrastructure as a product centered around users’ needs
- Experience optimizing the end to end performance of distributed systems
- Experience with scaling distributed systems in a rapidly moving environment
- Experience with resource optimization in online or batch processing systems
- Comfort breaking down large, complex systems; identifying shortcomings and optimization opportunities; and making data driven cost performance tradeoffs to influence design decisions
- Experience building and operating infrastructure and tools that empower developers
Desirable
- Experience building or maintaining observability solutions, such as designing and/or building telemetry collection, transport, and storage solutions
- Familiarity with open source and/or commercial observability technologies; familiarity with solutions in metrics, logs, and tracing domains
What the job involves
- Contribute to team strategy, roadmap, tooling, process, and culture
- Actively work with engineers across the company to understand and identify observability needs
- Understand our current system architecture, learn about the state-of-the art solutions implemented at other organizations, open-source solutions and their respective pros and cons
- Scope, design, implement, and deploy robust solutions, making appropriate tradeoffs between reliability, throughput, latency, resiliency, engineering velocity and cost
- Innovate, design and implement software solutions that contribute towards improvement in service resiliency, reliability, efficiency and management at scale
- Uphold our high engineering standards and improve our codebase and processes
Our take
Stripe, nowadays a FinTech giant, spent the first few years since its founding building up its payments business, which primarily consisted of providing an API to eCommerce businesses so that they could easily integrate a payment option in their apps or websites, where before there was none.
More recently, Stripe has started to accelerate its growth with a significantly larger range of financial services including cash advances and credit cards. They also plan to build incorporation services, fraud protection, and more, diversifying its revenue away from payments and differentiating itself from its competitors.
To further expand its position, the company is extending its services to countries with vast customer potential, including Brazil, Japan and India. It is also partnering with OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT - a win-win collaboration that is monetising OpenAI’s flagship products and at the same time enhancing Stripe with GPT-4, as it moves forward with intentions to "build the payments foundation for tomorrow's AI economy."
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 14 rounds)
Mar 2023
$6.5bn
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Mar 2021
$600m
SERIES H
Total funding: $8.7bn
Company benefits
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Work from home opportunities
- Comprehensive mental, physical and medical health plans
- Fertility benefits and parental leave
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Patrick Collison
(CEO)Studied maths at MIT before founding Stripe. Also on the board of the Long Now Foundation.
John Collison
(President)Studied at Harvard but dropped out to found Stripe.
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